Robert Matas
The Globe and Mail
February 15, 2010
VANCOUVER – Radical protesters publicly announced they intended to adopt more aggressive tactics several hours before Hudson’s Bay and TD Bank plate-glass windows were smashed during an anti-Olympics demonstration in downtown Vancouver.
[efoods]The group respected the call of an all-ages, family-friendly demonstration Friday evening from the Vancouver Art Gallery to BC Place, a spokesman who identified himself as Walker Riley stated in Balaclava, a daily newspaper distributed in Vancouver during the Olympics.
“But Saturday is another day. Fists in the air will connect our struggle to the black eyes of the boys in blue,” Mr. Riley said.
An anti-Olympic march through downtown streets on Saturday morning took a turn after a protester in a black-hooded sweatshirt with his face covered kicked in one of The Bay’s windows. A handful of protesters in black threw metal chairs, shattering the window. Then other windows were smashed.
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